Hostile indifference

When someone attacks, punishes, or lashes out with aggression that is completely detached from emotion — no hatred, no passion, no care who the target is. The hostility is real, but the person is utterly indifferent to why they are hostile or who it’s against. It’s not blind rage (emotional chaos), not indiscriminate hostility (attacking everything in sight), and not disguised hostility (pretending not to care but secretly malicious). It’s aggression powered by apathy. Not to be confused with: • Blind Rage → uncontrolled, sloppy, fueled by overwhelming emotion. • Indiscriminate Hostility → aggression against everything without distinction. • Disguised Hostility → manipulative tactic of pretending indifference while secretly hostile.